5 Quotes & Sayings By William Tyndale

William Tyndale was a reformer, scholar, and translator whose work has been widely credited with helping to shape the English language. Tyndale was born into a wealthy family at the village of Royston, Northamptonshire, a market town on a Roman road near Northampton. As a child he studied under the tutelage of William Langland, a local clergyman and schoolmaster. In 1494 he became a Cambridge University student and took an active part in the university's religious life Read more

He was ordained as a priest in 1506 and returned to London as chaplain to Archbishop Thomas Wolsey. After Wolsey's fall from power in 1529, Tyndale became chaplain to Henry VIII. The king helped him obtain his first teaching position at Oxford.

He is commemorated as one of the martyrs of the Protestant Reformation by having one of his teeth preserved and displayed at St. Peter ad Vincula in Tower Hill, London, where his remains were later interred.

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The preaching of God's word is hateful and contrary unto them. Why? For it is impossible to preach Christ, except thou preach against antichrist; that is to say, them which with their false doctrine and violence of sword enforce to quench the true doctrine of Christ. William Tyndale
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To see how Christ was prophesied and described therein, consider and mark, how that the kid or lamb must be with out spot or blemish; and so was Christ only of all mankind, in the sight of God and of his law. William Tyndale
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I perceived how that it was impossible to establish the lay people in any truth except the Scripture were plainly laid before their eyes in their mother tongue. William Tyndale
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My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark. William Tyndale